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Why We Blog, and Tips To Keep Us Inspired | Book Publishing Coach - 0 views
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If non-fiction, create stand-alone pieces anywhere from 300-700 words per post. If fiction, craft a stand-alone episode with a provocative title.
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Set up some Google Alerts to see who else is writing in your niche.
13 Blog Post Ideas for Novelists | Michael Hyatt - 0 views
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A Behind-the-Scenes Look. Give us a sense of what it is like to be a novelist. How did you feel when you finally landed an agent? What does a typical writing day look like for you? What’s it like to see your book in print and hold a copy in your hand for the first time?
Pubmission: The Blog - 0 views
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This my new site, designed to digitize the slush pile once and for all.
How to Write What People Actually Want to Read | Write to Done - 0 views
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over time, more and more blog traffic arrives from Search Engines
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In order to optimize your post for a particular keyword phrase you can get a free plugin, called WordPress SEO which helps you to use the keywords you’ve found in all the right places.
Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world - 0 views
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The industry has long suffered the irony that effective publishing is most evident when invisible; it is only when standards are less than felicitous that we realise how well what we read is managed most of the time.
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Gone is our confidence that publishers and agents know exactly what everyone wants to (or should) read
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The copy editor, a traditionally marginalised figure, is now in strong demand.
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From the Slush Pile… | Ploughshares - 0 views
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"If you want to get out of the slush pile, one of the worst things you can do is write a lackluster first paragraph."
Used Ebooks, the Ridiculous Idea that Could Also Destroy the Publishing Industry | Moth... - 0 views
Great Marketing Tips for Authors By Jason Miner | Book Marketing Strategies and Tips Fo... - 0 views
Anne R. Allen's Blog: Indie or Traditional Publishing? Don't Take Sides: Take Your Time - 1 views
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“The biggest challenge [to authors today] is self-restraint. Publishing tools, like Smashwords make it fast, free and easy for any writer anywhere in the world to publish. But we don’t make it easy to write a great book. Many writers, intoxicated by the freedom to self-publish, will often release their book before it’s ready.”
In E-Book War, the Independent Publishers Strike Back | mediaIDEAS - 0 views
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the nine independent publishers who finally took a stand: Abrams Books, Chronicle Books, Grove/Atlantic Inc. Chicago Review Press, Inc, New Directions Publishing Corp., W.W. Norton & Company, Perseus Books Group (where I work), the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, and Workman Publishing.
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the independent publishers asserted that, “in aggregate, according to market data published by Nielsen BookScan the independents accounted for approximately 49 percent of total trade book sales nationwide in 2011.” A significant portion of those sales were through Amazon, which is why their decision to challenge the settlement and incur the possible wrath of this retailing giant is cou rageous.
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If the agency model is effectively banned, Amazon will have the ability to price whole categories of e-books below cost in a way that is likely to drive out competition from other less deep-pocketed booksellers as well as brick and mortar booksellers.
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